Crape-holder.



WITNEEEES- c. H. TI-ERNEY.

GRAPE HOLDER.

v APPLIOATIOI FILED JUNE 15, 1910.

lNvE'N-rm ATTU NEY.

Patented July 11, 1911.

CHARLES H. TIERNEY, OF PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

GRAPE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 15, 1910. Serial No. 566,903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs H. TIERNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crape- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device adapted for suspending crape, ribbons, or other mourning articles from a door or jamb, and its principal objects are to avoid excessive defacement of wood work, to firmly engage the fabric without injury to the texture thereof, to afiord an ornamental effect, and to effect these ends by a simple, strong, and inexpensive structure.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and constituting the subject matter of the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the views, Figures 1, 2, and 3, are rear, end and plan views respectively of my novel crape holder, Fig. 4, a front elevation of the same engaging a fabric, Fig. 5, a section on line w m of Fig. 4c, and Fig. 6, a section on line 3 y of Fig. 1.

My novel crape holder comprises a plate or body A preferably of metal and in the present instance provided with a central opening, a. If desired the face of the plate or frame A may be embossed or otherwise ornamented.

Soldered or otherwise fixed to the upper.

portion of the back of the plate are two sockets B in horizontal alinement with each other in which are fixed pins C, preferably held in position by swaging the sockets as at 6 around the pins.

Near the vertical edges of the plate, upon its back and in horizontal alinement with each other, are fixed a catch D, and a pivot pin E of any usual construction. On the latter is pivotally mounted a pin F whose end is adapted to engage in the catch D. The members D and E are in vertical alinement with the pin members C, but the latter extend a considerably greater distance from the plane of the plate A than do the members D and E. i

In Figs. 4 and 5 is shown my holder engaging a streamer of crape H which is embraced between the plate A and the pin F. The plate A and its attached materials are rigidly and securely held in position by the points of the pins'C which are manually pressed into the door or jamb J.

What I claim is,

In a crape holder, a flat plate having an opening therein and provided with pins projecting from the rear face thereof adjacent the upper edge and a catch and pivot pin on the same face adjacent the opposite edge of the plate, the pins extending beyond the planes of the pivot pin and catch.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. TIERNEY.

Witnesses:

HORATIO E. BELLOWS, WALTER LOUIS FRosT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

Patented July 11, 1911. 

